پیوندهای فرانسوی: شبکه‌های تأثیر در فرانسه

Political partners and alumni groups, Masons and the Mafia, Jews and Protestants -- we are enmeshed in a network of networks, working for and against each other's interests. They explain the decisions, the nominations, the deals that take place. How much influence do they really have? This book enumerates the ways in which members of "old-boys' clubs" maneuver to help each other through.Political leaders, gang leaders, corporate chiefs, and smugglers -- they all form a very small world. From dinner clubs to juntas ... it's not only business deals that go on behind those doors! They were born in the same region, went to the same schools, fought the same fights and made the same mistakes in youth. They share the same morals, the same fantasies of success and the same taste for money. They act behind the scenes to help each other, boosting careers, monopolizing business and information, making money, conspiring and, why not, becoming Presidents! From Corsica, the Corree, Auvergne, Brittany and Savoy, former "collaborationists" and free-masons; homosexuals and aristocrats; tax inspectors and ex-Trotskyites; hunters and golfers; Jews and Protestants ... they all belong to a network, and sometimes to several. Multiple and unofficial, these places of complicity draw a hidden geography of French society. They explain more surely than official communiques the decisions, the nominations, the transactions that take place. To write this secret history of networks, Sophie Coignard and Marie-Thérèse Guichard questioned actors and observers of these secret solidarities in every milieu, every region, every class. From the "Make Yourself Comfortable" brotherhood to the laundry "gang." the mountain "red necks" to the "brothers" of the Mediterranean Coast, from the clan from the Charente to the club of new capitalists, heirs to the thieves' cloaks to plotters in priests' cassocks ... they lift the veil from all these subterranean understandings which glue together France They were born in the same region, went to the same schools, fought the same battles and made the same mistakes. They share the same morals, the same fantasies of success and the same taste for money Behind the scenes they help each other, boosting careers, monopolizing business and information, making money, conspiring and, why not, becoming Presidents!

Jews and Protestants, former collaborationists and Freemasons, homosexuals and aristocrats, hunters and golfers, they all belong to a network, and sometimes to several. These places of complicity draw a hidden geography of French society. They explain more surely than a press release the decisions, the nominations, the deals that take place.

To write this secret history, Sophie Coignard and Marie-Therese Guichard questioned participants and observers of these secret groups in every milieu and every class. From the mountain red-necks to the brothers of the Mediterranean Coast, from the Charente clan to the new capitalists club, heirs to the thieves cloaks and plotters in priests' robes, they lift the veil from all these subterranean understandings that glue together France.

The Old Boys Club, French Style -- Wherever You Go, It''s Still True That What Matters Most Is Whom You Know. This Book Reveals Some Of The Patterns Of How It All Works.